Animal Sciences

If you’re a zookeeper assigned to the big cat exhibit (think lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars) you are expected to develop a relationship with the animals, even a 350-pound lion. How do you do that? “Very slowly,” said Jennifer Robertson CC’97, permanent keeper at the KeyBank Big Cat Falls exhibit at the Philadelphia Zoo. There are […]

Three generations of a family, spanning 60 years, are proud to proclaim they are alumni. One family, three generations of it, spans 60 years of attending Rutgers—the perfect personification of what it means to be scarlet forever. Donald E. Seccia graduated from Rutgers College with a journalism degree in 1956. His twin daughters attended Rutgers, […]

Alumnus Jonathan Kolby comes to the rescue of frogs in Honduras—and worldwide. As a boy, alumnus Jonathan Kolby spent hours catching frogs in the woods near his Union, New Jersey, home. He’s still hunting for them, although his efforts these days take him to places like the wetlands of Nicaragua, Australia, Kenya, and Honduras, where Kolby […]

By Jeannette Mullins and Kathy Manger, Department of Animal Sciences “Gut and Metabolic Disease” was the theme of the 10th Annual Pioneers in Endocrinology Workshop held on October 11 at the Busch Student Center. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Endocrine Program; Department of Animal Sciences at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological […]

Alumna Peggy Gibbon is the director of canine development at The Seeing Eye, the well-regarded guide-dog school where she has worked for 30 years and has “the best job in the world.” Peggy Gibbon is used to hearing that she has the best job in the world. “A lot of people are dog lovers, so […]

Dipak Sarkar, distinguished professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and director of the Endocrine Program at Rutgers, was awarded the 2017 Distinguished Researcher Award by the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA). Director of the Biomedical Division of the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, Sarkar’s work on the impact of excessive alcohol intake on endocrine and […]

Kenneth McKeever, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and associate director of research at the Rutgers Equine Science Center (ESC), was elected president of the Equine Science Society (ESS) at its biannual meeting on June 2. The society is the preeminent international body of equine researchers, teachers, extension specialists and industry representatives whose focus […]

Women are strongly advised to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy, and for good reason. A recent study, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, however, shows that alcohol use even before conception also could have negative effects on the offspring’s health and response to stress during adulthood. The research team was led […]

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Explorations, Spring 2016. According to professor of animal sciences Carol Bagnell, milk serves as a conduit for delivery of developmental signals from mother to offspring in a lactocrine manner. Lactocrine—a term she coined with colleague Frank Bartol of Auburn University—refers to the transmission of milk-borne bioactive factors from […]

Sarah Ralston, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, has received the inaugural “Educator of the Year” award from the New Jersey Veterinary Foundation. The award is based on Ralston’s years of nurturing pre-veterinary and veterinary students. Ralston is credited with directly mentoring 113 students who have gone on to careers in veterinary medicine since […]